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(No Model G. LAYNG. BELT SHIPPER'FOR SPINNING AND TWISTING FRAMES.

Patented Dec. 25, 1883.

' WITNESSES ATTORNEYS.

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UNITED STATES PATE T OFFICE.

GEORGE LAYNc, OF wORcESrER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO SILAS w. GODDARD, OF SAME rLAcEf BELT-SHIPPER FOR SPINNING AND TWISTING FRAMES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 290,779, dated December 25, 1883.

Application filed April 10, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE LAYNG, of Worcester, in the county of Worcester. and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Belt-Shippers for Spinning and Twisting Frames; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

My invention has relation to that class of mechanisms for shipping the belts on spinning and twisting frames, in which the belt may be shipped by the operator while standing at any point in front of the frame by a laterallysliding transverse rod; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of such a mechanism by which the rod operating the shipping mechanism may be held in its positions by a spring-catch engaging notches in a transverse bar connected with the shipper-fork, as hereinafter more fully de' scribed and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a portion of the end of a frame with my invention applied thereto; and Fig. 2 is a front view of the same.

Like letters indicate like parts in the two views.

a is a rod in front of the spindles. rod runs the length of the frame.

12 represents knob-handles fixed to rod a.

c are brackets suitably secured to the machine, and in which the rod a slides, and by means of which it is secured.

d is a lever fulcrumed at it. The outer end of said lever is attached to one end of the operating-rod a, and the inner end is secured to one end of the square bar 6. Said bar is guided and suspended in the square sleeves f of the hangers f.

g is a spring secured to the underside of one of the sleevesf Said spring is provided with the upwardly-turned point 9. Said point is adapted to engage either one of the notches g inthe bar 0.

h is the shipper-fork secured to one end of the bar 6.

The operation and advantages of my im- Said knobs band move said rod to theleft, (assuming the parts to be in the position as shown in Fig. 2.) Such movement will cause the back end of lever 61 to pass inward, and there by force the guide-bar 6 through the sleeves f. Such action will cause the shipper-fork h to pass inward and thereby change the belt as desired. \Vhen it is desired to effect the shift the rod a should be moved quickly, or with a slight jerk, so as to disengage the spring point from the notch in the bar 6. The operator is enabled, by said spring and notches, to determine when the shipper has been moved to the proper distance either to the right or left. The spring-point 9 also secures the bar e in either one of the two desired positions.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent The combination of a spinning-machine frame, provided with transverse bearings.

formed in the front part of the same, a transverse rod provided with knobs or handles and sliding in said bearings, hangers pendent from the rear portion of the frame and having transverse bearings formed at their lower ends, a spring secured to one of the hangers and having an upwardly-bent end, a bar sliding in the bearings in the hangers and having notches at given points in its under side, a shipperfork secured to one end of said bar, and a lever of the first class pivoted on the end of the frame, and hinged at its ends to the ends of the sliding rod and bar, as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE LAYNG.

Witnesses: q

HENRY E. HILL, WM. MUN OE. 

